Meaning & use
Brier
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A thorny, tangled shrub or vine, such as a wild rose; also, the hard root wood of the tree heath, traditionally used to make tobacco pipes.
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The trail was overgrown with brier and thistle.
He smoked a hand-carved brier pipe every evening.
A note on using this word
"Brier" and "briar" are interchangeable spellings; the pipe-making sense comes from the French "bruyère," meaning heather, since pipe wood is cut from the heath plant's root burl.
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